How to pronounce trade
American English pronunciation
TRAYD
- IPA
- /ˈtɹeɪd/
- Syllables
- TRAYD (1 syllable)
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What trade means
Most people know trade in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A job that takes skilled work with your hands
In a sentence: Her uncle learned the plumbing trade and now fixes pipes all over town.
Where it comes from: It comes from an old German word for a path or track. In English it came to mean the path a person follows in life, and then the work they do.
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